Postclassic Urbanism at Calixtlahuaca: Reconstructing the Unpublished Excavations of José García Payón

Summary

The research supported by FAMSI in 2002 has significance at several levels. First, this research is helping bring to light the results and significance of José García Payón’s initial excavations at Calixtlahuaca. Calixtlahuaca is the key site for understanding the Postclassic cultures of the Toluca Valley (García Castro 1999; Sugiura Yamamoto 1998; Zuñiga Bárcenas 2001), and García Payón’s work has significance beyond the site itself. Second, the proposed research helps lay the groundwork for my planned fieldwork at Calixtlahuaca starting in 2004 or 2005. Third, this research contributes to the clarification of a number of problems concerning the chronology, classification, and regional distribution of Postclassic ceramics of the Toluca Valley.

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